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SELLERS v. WILSON

No. 991-N.

123 F.Supp. 917 (1954)

Aaron SELLERS, J. S. Sellers, Willie Dorsey, and Lorenza Robins, Plaintiffs, v. S. B. WILSON, Fred W. Chappell, and W. B. Rainer, Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. Alabama, N. D.

September 10, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur D. Shores, Birmingham, Ala., Thurgood Marshall and Robert L. Carter, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Lawrence K. Andrews, Union Springs, Ala., for defendants.

CHARLES B. KENNAMER, District Judge.

This is a suit by the above named plaintiffs, all Negroes, against the above named defendants who constituted the board of registrars of Bullock County, Alabama, for a declaratory judgment, declaring the policy, custom or usage of the defendants in allegedly refusing to register as electors plaintiffs solely on account of their race or color, unlawful and in violation of federal constitutional rights; and too, that this court issue...

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